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Old Posted Sep 19, 2011, 7:29 AM
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Vancouver: Making the Gods Work for You

More of the usual-ness I deliver: old buildings, random sights, graffiti, some people and photo walks of places around Metro Vancouver. These images were taken from around the beginning to mid April of this year.
Please enjoy!

This was taken on April 15 and it's quite unusual to have snow this late even on the mountains:


























































Stranded:


































































Thousands of runners gearing up for the annual Sun Run 10K race in downtown Vancouver. I was one of those who ran on this day:


As a special bonus, the remaining pictures were taken in New Westminster, which is technically part of Metro Vancouver but is its own municipality. It is older than Vancouver and was once the capitol of the province from 1858-1866. Vancouver wasn't incorporated until 1886. In other words, there's lots of old buildings and stuff:
















Apparently this is the largest tin soldier in the world:






























































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good new stuff. this photo made me laugh. back in the day my parents had a truck just like this except it had the extended cab. broke down all the time. lol
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I like how they did this:


Thanks for the great views and tour.
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Great scenes! Nothing like an old Cadillac to cheer me. I miss the days when Cadillacs were the Cadillacs of cars.
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great stuff. obviously i love me some vancouver, but it's nice to see some new westminster. never been there and have no idea what it looks like other than from a distance.

largest tin soldier? go for the gold, new westminster.
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Great urban mix, West coast goodness as always. Although strange to see Chinese people promoting Jehovah's Witness-ing.
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That town looks pretty freakin awesome, I hope to visit there someday, thanks for the pics.
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I like this as well - the combination creates some interesting angles. I would love to check out some of the interior spaces. Nice work btw.

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Cool. I have never heard of New Westminster, but it looks like an interesting place. I especially like the same building everyone else is pointing out for its combination of an ornate historicist base and a modern tower, which is something I've been hoping to see from architecture for a long time. I'd like to learn/see more of that building.

Also, I just realized that I mentally consider stores with awnings like this to be a litmus test as to whether a place qualifies as a "real city".
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Thanks muchly for the comments everyone.
Those awnings are the bane of my very existence and I wish they'd just disappear. Unfortunately they don't and look more and more grubby every year.
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Cool. I have never heard of New Westminster, but it looks like an interesting place. I especially like the same building everyone else is pointing out for its combination of an ornate historicist base and a modern tower, which is something I've been hoping to see from architecture for a long time. I'd like to learn/see more of that building.

Also, I just realized that I mentally consider stores with awnings like this to be a litmus test as to whether a place qualifies as a "real city".
We have a thread dedicated to it here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170202

You can see the history of the interurban station that was restored next door and such.

Here are some other sites about it:

http://www.6717000.com/blog/2010/03/...historic-city/

http://www.macmarketingsolutions.com...er/inter-urban
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Thanks Bedhead and thanks for the links red-paladin!
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